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The one where we run out of daylight because my husband won’t stop talking.

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Next to the cypress wetlands was the Port Royal museum. We love small local museums run by resident volunteers and always try to support them when we can.

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This local didn’t share any history with us, but he was all about a good neck scratch.

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Not St. Augustine, Florida.

Nope. That’s a common misconception. The Spanish actually settled Port Royal first, but it was abandoned a few years later due to lack of funds.

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This museum was tiny but filled with interesting things.

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Megalodon teeth… that you can apparently scavenge for on local beaches. Sign me up!

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15 million year old clam? That too.

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The docent had absolutely no idea what this was, but I’m there for it as well.

We’d had a busy day, and since I had one more waterfront walk on the schedule for the late afternoon I tried to hurry the husband along.

I think you can guess how that went.

Just when I almost had him out the door, the lovely lady who runs the museum suggested he might want to look at some military photo albums donated by a resident.

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Yes, they were interesting.

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Filled with heart warming pics…

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As well as the horrors of war.

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Most were taken during WWII and Korea. And while I appreciated her sharing them with us, I wasn’t as thrilled with the hour long conversation that followed.

Vacation time is limited!

Schedules must be kept.

As the sun was going down, I finally dragged him out of the building and we headed for the boardwalk.

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Tiptoeing through the seagulls we made our way forward.

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It’s a popular fishing spot next to the marshes and offers a long stretch of easy walking with a viewing tower.

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Of course it was getting dark and the wind had ratcheted up to a howl which made it less than comfortable.

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We only climbed to the first level of the three level tower…

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The higher you went… the stronger and colder the winds. One quick picture and I called it good.

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The sun was setting and we needed to get back on the road.

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As you can see, our giant rental beast dwarfed all the other vehicles in the parking area.

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Good bye Port Royal…. it was swell.

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17 thoughts on “The one where we run out of daylight because my husband won’t stop talking.”

  1. I was going through Navy squadron photos on-line to see if I could find my dad. It took a lot of effort but I finally found one photo with the crew and my father in his Chief’s uniform. Everyone was smiling but him. He seldom smiled when in full uniform…

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      1. My dad had the personality of Andy Griffith but the photo made him look like Captain Bly. Although he DID have to put down a mutiny… it WAS the seventies after all…

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  4. These little museums are a best. It reminds me of a tiny baseball museum in the middle of a hamlet near the city of London (Ontario, Canada) where a kid had a baseball tournament once. (Yes, my hockey kid played baseball for years…lol). Anyway, the guy who was an avid baseball fan began to collect baseball items, then stored them in his farm house. Fast forward years later, it’s now a designated museum and people donate baseball things to him. It was a cluttered house filled with baseball memorabilia and probably one of my favorite museums ever. The pride in the man who demonstrated and told stories even captivated the two younger girls (my son’s sister and his buddy’s sister) which says a lot because they were only 5 and 6, but also involved in baseball. 🙂

    Great pictures and stories! I don’t know much about the Carolinas but these memories of yours makes me want to vacation there. 🙂

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    1. That’s the best compliment anyone has ever given my vacation posts … thanks!
      And I love the idea that someone turned their passion for baseball into a museum. What a great way to share.
      ❤️

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  6. Your a pro at vacation pics River! You know what to take photos of, angle, light and subject. Even if your human subject likes to converse more than usual, lol. That boardwalk is stunning, the water is gorgeous. As a far west Texas girl, I rarely see water unless the horses at the equine research center behind our building are being bathed. Which is fun to watch because they seem to love their bath time, lol.

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